Featured Trades: (THE BEAR MARKET IN BONDS IS STILL SLEEPING), (TLT)   3) The Bear Market in Bonds is Still Sleeping. I just wanted to give you this updated technical chart of the long dated bond ETF (TLT), showing that the bear market in bonds is indeed on 'PAUSE'. This will be music to the [...]

Featured Trades: (PALLADIUM), (PLATINUM), (PALL), (PPLT)   4) Check Out the Dip in Palladium. If you want to see the one precious metal that has been beaten senseless by the disaster in Japan, take a look at Palladium (PALL). Thanks to its close ties to the auto industry, the white metal has plummeted by 22% [...]

Featured Trades: (NEW YORK STRATEGY LUNCHEON)   Last Chance to Buy a Ticket for the Thursday, March 31 New York Strategy Luncheon. The Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Update will be held at 12:00 noon on Thursday, March 31, 2011. The event will be held at an exclusive private club on Central Park South.  [...]

Featured Trades: (LONDON STRATEGY LUNCHEON) 1) Last Chance to buy a Ticket to the April 4 London, England Strategy Luncheon. Come join me for lunch for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in London, England on Monday, April 4, 2011. A three course lunch will be followed by [...]

Featured Trades: (US HEDGE FUNDS ARE ABOUT TO UNDRESS)   2) Hedge Funds are About to Undress. The July 21 deadline for the hedge funds to register required by the one year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank bill is fast approaching, and the industry is roiling with turmoil. The net result for the rest of us [...]

Featured Trades: (AIRLINE STOCKS COULD BE READY FOR A TAKEOFF)   3) Airline Stocks Could Be Ready for Take Off. When I was a young, clueless investment banker at Morgan Stanley 30 years ago, the head of equity sales took me aside to give me some fatherly advice. Never touch the airline industry. The profitability [...]

Featured Trades: (NEW YORK STRATEGY LUNCHEON)   1) Last Chance to Buy a Ticket for the Thursday, March 31 New York Strategy Luncheon. The Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Update will be held at 12:00 noon on Thursday, March 31, 2011. The event will be held at an exclusive private club on Central Park [...]

Featured Trades: (GUESS WHO'S BUYING GOLD), (GLD), (SLV), (ABX)   2) Guess Who's Buying Gold. With gold threatening to break out to a new all-time high, and silver having already done so, some interesting facts are coming out about the precious metals market. It turns out that Iran has been a major buyer, with the [...]

Featured Trades: (POST MORTEM ON THE YEN)   3) Yen Post Mortem. Since my bet that the Japanese yen would decline clearly didn’t work, I thought I would sift through some alternative theories in an attempt to understand why this trade came undone so badly. After all, every loss is a lesson, best to be [...]

'Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as 'long-short', 'macro', or 'international equities.' At Berkshire, our only style box is 'smart', said 'Oracle of Omaha', Warren Buffet, CEO and the largest shareholder in Berkshire Hathaway.

Featured Trades: (WELCOME TO WWIII) 1) Welcome to World War III. If there was ever a war that had to happen it is our new military engagement against Libya. Khadafy had made enemies with so many governments as the enfant terrible of the Middle East that putting together a coalition to depose him was a [...]

Featured Trades: (OIL ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE)   2) Oil Isn't What It Used to Be. Virtually every analyst has been puzzled by the seeming immunity of stock markets to soaring oil prices this year. In fact, stocks and crude have been tracking almost one to one on the upside. The charts below [...]

Featured Trades: (MY HOLLYWOOD ROLE) 1) Hollywood Cashes in on Wall Street's Woes. I have done many things in my life: hedge fund manager, pilot, cowboy, journalist, stock broker, mountain climber, translator, guide, etc, etc. etc. Now add technical consultant to Hollywood to the list. According to the New York Times, Simon Baker, star of [...]

Featured Trades: (TESLA MOTORS), (TSLA)   2) Tesla: Sell the Sizzle, Then Buy the Steak. So far, the most successful thing Tesla Motors (TSLA) has done is sell stock. The IPO was an absolute blowout success, far and away the best this year, with book building at $14-$16, the size increased by 20%, pricing at [...]

Featured Trades: (RHODIUM), (AAUKY.PK), (PAL), (SWC)   3) Pssst! Have You Heard About’..? When I was at the New York Hard Asset Investment Conference, every hour someone would stop by my table, mention the word ‘rhodium’, and walk away. My interest piqued, I decided to look into this mysterious metal. Rhodium (Rh) is in fact [...]